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Do you speak French(Tech)?
SINGAPORE FINTECH FESTIVAL X SWITCH
Singapore
November 11-15, 2019
French Delegation
Booklet
In partnership with
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France and Singapore are like-minded partners
with a long history and a rich network of
cooperative ventures. In 2018, the France-
Singapore Year of Innovation created a great
momentum between our two countries: 60
events, a dozen high-level visits, over 20 bilateral
MoUs, the creation of the Joint Committee for
Science and Innovation and more. France
officially added Singapore to its global French
Tech community network, aiming to connect
French entrepreneurs and startupers working in
Singapore with local and regional business
networks. Similarly, Singapore launched the
Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) program in
H.E. Marc Abensour, Paris, the first in Europe, to better connect both
Ambassador of France to Singapore our innovation ecosystems and startups.
The France-Singapore road map for deepening cooperation in digital innovation,
internet governance and cyber security was signed at the highest level by the
French President and Singapore’s Prime Minister on July 13th 2018. We recognise
the significance of startups in our economies and the common interest to develop
cooperative ventures in new technological frontiers and enabled us to strengthen
the strategic partnership between France and Singapore with major initiatives.
Taking a look at the current situation, we have a vibrant French ecosystem here
in Singapore: 1,000 companies, 300 entrepreneurs, over 15,000 French registered
at the Embassy. As Singapore is recognised as an attractive platform for
projecting startups and innovative companies in Asia, the French Embassy is
supporting several boosting initiatives to accelerate startups and facilitate the
connection with local Venture Capitalists (VCs).
This year, thanks to the commitment of the French Tech community in Singapore
and to the support of our sponsors, we are very proud to see that more than 50
French Startups and Fintech companies – from France and Singapore – will
participate in the Singapore Week of Innovation & Technology and the Singapore
FinTech Festival from 11 to 15 November, the largest regional meeting in the
Tech platform, as well as the Asia Startup Summit on 15 November.
I extend a warm invite to you to check out the “Choose France- La French Tech”
booth for more information on the French startups and to chat with the
entrepreneurs.
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Do you speak French(Tech)?
In 2013, the French government launched “La French Tech“, an open
brand of the French startup scene and an initiative to support &
promote the French startup ecosystem on an international level.
In April 2019, 13 French Tech Capital Cities and 38 French Tech
Communities in France, as well as 48 Communities abroad –including one
in Singapore– have been officially labelled.
Today, La French Tech counts over 10,000 startups, a number
increasing by 30% every year.
French Tech went from an irksome lack of venture capital 4 years
ago, to raising megaround after megaround in 2019. During the 1 st
semester of 2019, French startups raised €2.8 billion, a 32% increase year-
on-year. For instance, with their latest round of fundraising, Doctolib
(doctor-appointment booking platform), Meero (online tools for
photographers), and Ivalua (software publisher) joined the ranks of
France’s unicorn startups, along Veepee (e-commerce), OVH (cloud
computing), BlaBlaCar (car pooling platform), and Deezer (music
streaming).
Moreover, there is still room for growth.
In September 2019, the French Government unveiled the “French
Tech 120”’ growth-stage program, built to provide unprecedented
support for the 120 fastest growing companies in France. For one year,
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the startups joining the program will be granted 3 wishes, unlimited
access to a range of services offered by over 40 ministries and
government agencies, business development opportunities with the
State, as well as a berth for experimentation. A list of 40 startups with
high prospects of becoming global tech leaders, forming the “Next40”
subset, has already be published.
More capital will be available to back those efforts. Mid-September,
President Emmanuel Macron announced that €5 billion will be
redirected into French Tech over the next three years, with €2 bn
invested in French venture capital funds focusing on late-stage
investments, and €3 bn invested via asset managers based in France who
specialize in listed tech companies.
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Delegation List
From France:
FINTECH SMART CITY
Active Asset Allocation Actility
Caarea Easytopia
Chekk FieldBox.ai *
DataLog Finance GeoTwin
DriveQuant Kinéis
Equalios
Gambit
GetNeo
French Tech Singapore:
ICA
Kaiko Agorize H3Dynamics
Kyriba AltaRoad Hack40
Manager One BeeBryte Incomlend
QuantCube Clik Jumpster
QuodFinancial Co-Creation Lab Meero
Shift Technology * Dathappy Positive Energy
Trade.Easy Dathena Rockside
Verifeasy Devialet Sigfox
Wynd Dragonwhiz Sleek
Younited Credit eShard Toku World
Le Swave Growth Marketing Studio Vantage Capital
Webdrone
(*) Shift Technology & FieldBox.ai are also
members of La French Tech Singapore.
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Fintech
French fintech startups are riding on the digitalization of the finance
industry. They raised a record €365 million ($412m) in 2018, a 15%
increase year-on-year. Four scale-ups even made roundtables exceeding
€20 million: Qonto (B2B neobank), Alan (insurtech), October (crowdfunding
platform) and Ledger (wallets for crypto-currencies).
Financial services is the largest business sector in Paris, and it includes
six Fortune 500 companies with combined revenue above $500bn
Paris is a top choice for financial and fintech companies looking to
preserve an access to the EU market in the context of Brexit.
The 2019 Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) ranked Paris as the #9
startup ecosystem worldwide across all industries – it was #11 in the prior
ranking dated 2017. The authors point out fintech as an area of specific
strength. They notably mention payment app Lydia and neobank Qonto,
which raised $16m and $23m in 2018 respectively.
French startuppers aspire to mimic the success of fellow entrepreneurs like
David Gurlé, founder of Symphony, or Jean-Luc Robert, CEO of Kyriba. The
French fintech industry has seen numerous exits in the last two years like
the purchase of neobank Compte Nickel by BNP Paribas or the acquisition
of crowdfunding website KissKissBankBank by La Banque Postale. Lucky
investors are now reinvesting their gains into future fintech champions. A
virtuous cycle is ignited.
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Active Asset Allocation is a FinTech created in 2010 that designs,
with the help of Artificial Intelligence engines, bespoke investment
solutions based on a proprietary risk management methodology
and delivers them through an integrated digital platform. AAA
offers many different services, supported by extensive research and a
active-asset-allocation.com team of 15 experts.
The modules and sub-modules of the platform can be used
Adina Grigoriu independently or together. For instance it is possible to offer an asset
CEO & Founder manager to construct investment solutions, follow them on the platform,
adina.grigoriu@aaaic.com input its market views on a regular basis, work with independent financial
advisors that on-board their clients, create life projects, simulate the
possible outcomes of those projects with the different investment
solutions and propose an individualized allocation to each client and
project.
Their approach is to assess their clients’ investment assets and
liabilities and develop customized strategies which they monitor
daily to help the clients meet their targets.
Singapore is one of the most advanced country in robot advisory in Asia:
assets under management have been growing strongly since 2017 and it
is expected to triple by 2023. Singapore is one of the most developed
wealth management centers in the world: it remains a major attraction
for high net worth investors which presents a large market. AAA is
going to the Fintech Festival in Singapore because amazing things are
happening there in the Fintech space. We want to compete with the best
in one of the fastest growing markets !
As more people rely on mobility services as their preferred way of travel,
decline in car ownership will increase expectations for new mobility
solutions.
Caarea is an international insurtech & MGA (underwriting and
administration agency), specialized in Mobility protection. Caarea
brings together its insurance expertise in the automotive fields with the
administration capabilities offered by its digital platform. It provides the
automotive ecosystem with digital end to end solutions, to conquer,
www.caarea.com serve and retain “new mobility” customers by protecting their mobility
and lifestyle.
Eric de Lassus Present in Europe since 2010, Caarea operates in China and Korea
Business Development Director
and is actively exploring new partnerships with insurers in Southeast
Asia.
edelassus@caarea.com
Singapore is the most dynamic regional hub in Southeast Asia, and
attending the Fintech Week will help Caarea forge new links with its
insurance partners.
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Chekk is a Digital Identity leader providing secure end-to-end
“Know Your Customer” solutions that remove the pain and costs of
interactions between financial institutions and their retail and corporate
customers.
A comprehensive and differentiated ecosystem allows for integrating,
verifying and interacting with customers via API or Web and mobile front
-end interfaces, including customer due diligence; connectivity to people
and company registries, AML lists, corporate hierarchies; electronic
www.chekk.me identity verification with OCR, FaceMatching and Proof of Life for
individuals, administrators and UBOs; secure data portfolio for consent,
data portability…
Pascal Nizri
Chekk is growing rapidly and was presented by the World Economic
Founder & CEO
Forum, supported by Facebook, the Citi Group, Standard Chartered,
pascal.nizri@chekk.me
Allianz and Crédit Agricole, through various acceleration and
collaboration programs, and rewarded by Microsoft, IBM and Money
2020.
Created in 1997, DataLog Finance is a European Treasury software
publisher dedicated to mid-market and large companies. Its
Treasury Management Systems (TMS) are daily used in more than 100
countries worldwide by companies including Danone, IBM, Airbus, Total,
etc., which represent more than 15,000 users and billions of dollars
handled every day.
www.datalog-finance.com With the Treasury Line TMS for large groups, DataLog Finance meets all
the Treasurer's needs for 360° view and actions: cash and risk
Imad Ben Mariem management, netting, in-house banking, hedge accounting, FX and
CEO interest rate management, payment factory, SwiftNet and host to host
ibmariem@datalog-finance.com
bank communication and eBAM. Treasury Line is available in SaaS,
private cloud or on-premise environment.
Now, with the full Cloud TMS TreasuryLite (powered by Treasury Line),
the mid-market company Treasurers have access to a secure Cloud
environment for payment, liquidity management and FX and interest rate
transactions. TreasuryLite quickly fits any mid-market Information System
(fast implementation).
A market research conducted in 2014 in Singapore revealed the
local companies’ need for an alternative solution to the
predominant one, offered by FIS. This finding has been confirmed
for the entire Southeast Asia area. Hence the decision of DataLog
Finance, now that the product Treasury Line has matured, to enter this
market by creating an entity on the spot to cover at least the
Singaporean, Malayysian and Indonesian markets.
10DriveQuant offers car and mobility professionals (insurers, fleet
managers, distribution, maintenance, builders, trainers, etc.) services
connected to smartphone telematics, that is to say on the analysis of
driving data collected through the mobile. This technology has
www.drivequant.com
resulted in further savings in driving safety, fuel consumption,
environmental impact, and tire and brake wear.
Philippe Moulin
• Collect data to analyze user behavior (GPS data, location, speed, energy
CEO
consumption)
philippe.moulin@drivequant.com
• Better understand how vehicles move.
The solution is for insurance companies or fleet management companies
to be able to offer their customers a suitable product (e.g., premium,
insurance at the limit, etc.).
Singapore is well-known for its advanced technologies in the fields of
fintech and mobility, and thus, seems to be in line with our goals of
bringing connectivity to as many people as possible, co-creating
tomorrow's connected insurance products, improving road safety, and
reducing the environmental impact of driving.
Originally, Equalios is a French consulting firm with extensive
experience in financial services, mostly focused on the
implementation of regulatory requirements related to KYC, AML, FATCA,
AEOI, etc. Based on this experience and the strategy of governments to
enforce a growing regulatory pressure to fight more efficiently financial
crime, Equalios saw an edge to offer a solution for financial institutions
that allows them to cope with their regulatory obligations while
sustaining their benefits.
www.equalios.com
In order to do that, in 2017, Equalios started the development of the
"Centaure" solution, that leverages recent technology such as big
Jérôme Lee data architecture, artificial intelligence models and natural language
Managing Partner processing engines.
jlee@equalios.com As Centaure focuses primarily on wealth management and retail
banking, Singapore is an obvious choice as it is the third largest
market for financial institutions after New York and London.
Gambit Financial Solutions is a software company specialized in
digital wealth management platforms, including a white-labeled
robo-advisor. Created in 2007, the company proudly serves major
European banks, both in terms of highly customized digital wealth
management platforms and white-labeled robo-advisor solutions
tailored to the bank’s target clients. In addition to providing banks with
software solutions, Gambit launched its own robo-advisor in 2017,
gambit-finance.com Birdee, available for European investors. Birdee is now one of the biggest
independent robo-advisors in Europe in terms of assets under
management.
Gabrielle de Neve
Head of ASEAN markets Opening an office in Southeast Asia during the summer of 2019 is
part of the Gambit’s international expansion. Gambit’s focus will be on
g.deneve@gambit-finance.com
providing wealth management solutions to institutions, whether they are
financial institutions looking to digitize their offering or non-financial
institutions looking to offer their clients investment advisory services.
11GetNeo is a SaaS platform for consulting and managing foreign
exchange risk for businesses. Our mission: to self-audit-of-the-
business-and-change, to quantify and master it. All in a simple way and
without having to deploy complex and expensive solutions.
www.getneo.com The Neo account is an immediate access to the following services:
• Personalized exposure assessment of the risk of change in your
company,
Laurent Descout • Real time quotation on 80 currencies,
CEO & Founder • Execution capacity in cash and futures markets, swaps and options,
ld@getneo.com • Fintech,
• The ability to manage day-to-day operations.
As foreign exchange financial adviser, we work with international
companies. Southeast Asia being a commercial hub in which several
currencies coexist, it seemed natural to us to seek to develop here. In this
respect, Singapore has many advantages: a recognized political stability,
an ideal position to shine in the region, a country whose currency is
globally recognized and the presence of many fast-growing companies.
By combining data engineering, data analytics and data science, ICA
is helping financial services companies to make advanced risk and
business decisions by taking full advantage of the data they
www.the-ica.com sourced, generated and stored.
To answer new regulations and improve ROE, banks have implemented
Stéphane Rio datalakes to store trillions (1012) of data, typically risk data. In this new
CEO & Founder data dimension, ICA is the only solution allowing direct and quasi real-
stephane.rio@the-ica.com time end-user big data manipulations. It is also particularly praised
for operating both on the cloud and on premise (or a mix) on
commoditized hardware allowing over 80% of cost reductions compared
to in-memory solutions..
The deep business expertise of the team allows ICA to provide built-in
use cases (market risk and FRTB, credit risk, wholesale credit, ALM…) to
financial institutions and a new way to manipulate their data.
ICA’s innovative solution has proven to break existing bottlenecks:
we are deploying our solution at very large scale to a number of Tier one
banks, and working with a Tier one hedge fund and some large
corporates.
With clients in Europe, UK and the US, Asia is our next destination. One of
our clients has a strong foot print in Asia and is encouraging us to
establish there ASAP.
12Founded in 2014, Kaiko is a market data provider in the blockchain-
based digital assets space, providing institutional investors and
market participants with enterprise-grade data infrastructure. Kaiko
www.kaiko.com
collects, normalizes, stores, and distributes digital assets market data via
a livestream WebSocket, REST API, and cloud-based flat-file Data Feed,
to which clients connect to build data-driven applications.
Ambre Soubiran
CEO Their raw trade data, order books, and aggregates cover 10,000+
currency pairs across 80+ exchanges, with new markets added every day.
ambre@kaiko.com
With over five years of historical data, Kaiko provides the most
extensive digital asset datasets in the industry. Kaiko caters for the
market data needs of professional investors, academic researchers,
regulators, index providers, custodians, 3rd-party platforms and
exchanges.
Singapore is commonly seen as one of the most advanced counties
in cryptocurrency as a result of its balanced legal, regulatory regime
fostered by the MAS and technological maturity. It has led to the
emergence of many projects related to cryptocurrency: it is a very
popular destination for many blockchain and cryptocurrency
entrepreneurs.
Attending the Singapore Fintech Festival is a great opportunity for Kaiko to
learn more about the state of local blockchain and cryptocurrency
initiatives. We are very excited to have the opportunity to participate in
one of the biggest events around innovation in the world!
Kyriba is a Franco-American company created in 2003. It has been
offereing cash management and risk management software to
professionals long before the term "fintech" emerged. The company
has raised more than $80 million since its inception. Kyriba is the global
www.kyriba.com
leader in cloud treasury solutions, delivering award winning cash
management technology to CFOs, Treasurers, and Financial
Jean-Luc Robert Professionals.
CEO
More than 2,000 treasury clients use Kyriba to optimize global
jrobert@kyriba.com visibility, improve financial controls, and increase operational
productivity across their cash and liquidity, payments, supply chain
finance and risk management operations. Their innovative approach to
cash management enables confidence in cash visibility and empowers
CFOs, corporate treasurers, and finance teams to make strategic
investment decisions.
Utilizing a fully virtualized cloud solution, Kyriba clients enjoy the
benefits of 100% SaaS. Implementing our modular and scalable
solution across multiple geographies requires only a fraction of the
investment of traditional legacy systems, providing simple and secure
access to one source of truth — anytime, anywhere.
Singapore represents a significant opportunity for Kyriba given the very
large number of local and international banks and the strength of the
banking sector. Moreover, as treasury is becoming more digitized in
Singapore, there is growing trend in adopting specific technological
tools and capabilities by companies in order to handle specific tasks.
13manager.one is an online bank for all entrepreneurs: from self-
employed to CEOs of big companies. They provide a seamless and
frictionless experience for corporates to handle all of their daily banking
activities: managing a fleet of debit cards, handling expenses reports,
authorizations of expenses, payment of wages…
www.manager.one
manager.one is the first bank in France to provide its own Visa
Business card with no limit and fully customizable in real time with
Adrien Touati
55 features. While interfaces targeted at private individuals continue
CEO & Founder
to provide more services at reduced cost, professionals may still struggle
adrien@manager.one to receive their statements online. Based on this situation and confronted
with such daily aberrations, the founders of manager.one developed
innovative and efficient platform, free from turnover fees.
In Singapore, SMEs are contributing to 65% of the GDP. One of the
tops few business challenges for SMEs within Singapore is online
accounting, and cash flow management solution. Singapore FinTech
Festival welcomes international decision-makers for 5 days. This is a
wonderful opportunity for manager.one to introduce its technology to the
world's leading financial institutions.
QuantCube is an AI company specialized in Economic Intelligence
based on Big Data analytics, including satellite data, social media,
and plenty of other data sources. Our key product is an Economic
Intelligence Platform provided real-time and predictions strategic macro
www.quant-cube.com variables such as Economic Growth, Employment data, inflation data or
international trades.
Ghizlaine Amrani Our international customers range from asset managers, global
Co-founder & COO macro hedge funds to central banks, using those data within
ghizlaine.amrani@quant-cube.com investment process or risk analytics.
QuantCube expands internationally in US and Japan, backed
financially by Moody's and Caisse des Dépôts, as well as European Space
Agency (ESA) and CNES for its leading R&D in satellite data to create the
next European unicorn. In Singapore, QuantCube expects to meet with
financial institutions, in particular investment management firms.
Quod Financial is changing Multi-Asset Trading (E/OMS) in Europe
and Asia. Having consistently focused on performance, flexibility
and customisation for 10+ years in the EMS / OMS space, Quod has
become the underlying technology for Buy & Sell-sides looking to
quodfinancial.com automate their trading and optimise executions within Equities, FX,
Derivatives, Fixed Income and Digital Assets.
Medan Gabbay As a forward-thinking vendor we consistently prioritise E/OMS
Chief Revenue Officer innovation – naturally incorporating Machine Learning / AI. The
medan.gabbay@quodfinancial.com Smart Order Router and Algo functionalities winning awards for Best
Trading Technology and Best Product Innovation in 2019.
Quod Financial constantly innovates in the market in collaboration with
its clients but also by engaging with prospects and vendors to discover
new opportunities for innovation. As we grow in Asia and being an EM
specialised Algo and cross asset vendor, the Fintech Festival provides
unprecedented access to leading technology providers and forward
thinking market participants.
14Shift Technology was founded in 2014. Since opening their doors,
they have raised $100M USD, signed contracts with more than 75
insurers across the world, been designated as one of the top 100 AI firms
and top 20 Insurtechs globally. They currently offer two solutions to
global insurers:
- Force is a powerful, AI-powered fraud detection solution. This
automated, SaaS-based solution flags potentially fraudulent insurance
claims across all lines of business with a 75% hit rate. Analyzing claims in
real time or in batches, Force makes reviewing flagged claims and taking
shift-technology.com informed, data-driven actions easier for claims handlers. With Force,
insurers receive a comprehensive, prioritized set of suspicions underlying
Jeremy Jawish each fraud alert in a single, easy-to-navigate dashboard.
Co-founder & CEO - Luke is the only AI-native claims automation solution that’s smart
enough to significantly increase the volume of claims that are paid
immediately, without the need for manual review, while accurately
Jongtong Foo
detecting and flagging potential fraud for further investigation by claims
Asia Sales Director
handlers and SIU teams. It empowers insurers to deliver the best service
jongtong.foo@shift-technology.com possible while safeguarding against the risk of increased fraud.
Shift Technology is already established in Singapore, which allows
them to perfect their strategy in Asia. Major insurance groups that
are operating in Singapore are present throughout Asia: meet with these
insurers could enable them to expand their footprint in Asia.
TRADE.EASY has been created to improve international trading
efficiency. Our promise consists of five main functionalities to
structure and accelerate the whole workflow: sales, logistics, cash flow
www.trade-easy.fr
management, accounting and BI.
With TRADE.EASY, sales reps save 25% of their time by editing
Adrien Montoille
templated documents and by using a structured software to close
Founder deals. Logisticians become more rigorous and are able to follow
am@tss-france.fr many deals by using smart to-do lists. Owners or managers optimize
cash allocation, automatically generate accounting reports and look after
the business using KPI and BI analysis.
For TRADE.EASY, the Singapore FinTech festival is a very exciting
opportunity to exhibit in this well-known international trading
place. At least 30% of Asian trade takes place in Singapore, and we
look forward to meeting traders and showing them our international
trading platform. The second objective is to meet investors to help
TRADE.EASY finance its strong growth. Finally, the FinTech festival will
allow us to meet some of the most exciting fintech companies in the
world. We aim to enter into a partnership with them and increase our
functional offer and expand our commercial target!
15Verifeasy develops a platform to automatically detect discrepancies
in documentary credits, turning an hour long, complex process into
a two minutes, simple action.
Using an AI-powered OCR, machine learning and a rule engine, our
verifeasy.com
solution makes compliance checks quick, by reducing the time
spend by at least 80%, cost effective, with a tarification tailored to
Arnaud Doly the volume of transactions, and secure, by being constatly up-to-date
Founder & CEO with the latest regulations, and removing the risk of human errors.
arnaud@verifeasy.com For a bank in a documentary credit transaction : whether the bank acts
on behalf of the applicant or the beneficiary, a meticulous scrutiny of the
set of documents will be performed for each transaction. An average of
more than an hour is spent on each verification, 70% of the documents
are rejected, and the human error rate is high. To improve efficiency,
operational costs and security, banks can simply check the documents on
Verifeasy in two minutes, leaving the human action to the final decision.
77% of the documentary credit market is concentrated in the Asia-
Pacific sector, whose main financial centers are Hong Kong and
Singapore. As one of the pioneers of compliance analysis in trade
finance, Verifeasy intends to keep its first mover advantage by turning to
the international market, and by establishing itself at the heart of this
industry.
Wynd is a modular SaaS commerce platform that enables any
enterprise offering products or services across brick and mortar
stores and digital channels to build innovative customer journeys.
They developed 14 different modules around 3 main capabilities
www.wynd.eu allowing them to deploy game-changing experiences in a matter of
weeks while reducing their development and maintenance costs:
Ismael Ould - Cash-in suite powers fixed and mobile point of sales, self -checkout
Co-Founder & CEO or line extension experiences;
ismael@wynd.eu - Fulfilment suite powers booking, capacity planning, picking and
stock management systems;
- Core platform has an order management system, a product
information management system, a payment system, business
intelligence and AI capabilities. This platform can be seamlessly
connected to existing ERP, e-commerce, PSP and carriers with the API.
The platform was natively designed for an omnichannel world,
where products, customer experiences and employees are managed on
an unified platform during the entire purchase cycle.
Consumers are reshaping retail landscape in Singapore. With the
increase of competition (from marketplace in particular), the need to
stand out is essential for retailers to ensure the best possible customer
experience.
Asia is one of the most exciting and forward looking markets in the
world. Singapore is the ideal gateway, thanks to its strategic location and
pro-business environment. Wynd will be introducing its unified
commerce solution during the Fintech Festival.
16Younited Credit is the French biggest Fintech start-up and among
the fastest growth in the European lending market. They have built
the most simple, transparent and efficient platform and have
revolutionized the digital lending UX. They are the only European
consumer lending platform to be fully authorized and regulated as a
Credit Institution by the European Central Bank. Its innovative
refinancing model allows professional qualified investors (both
individuals and legal entities) to directly finance consumer loans.
Younited Credit has launched a new B2B activity a year ago,
www.younited-credit.com rebranded Younited Business Solutions (YBS). They provide state-of-the-
art technologies, expertise and services to partners (banks, insurers,
Telco, e-retailers).
Charles Egly
Co-founder & CEO These partners could either launch a consumer credit activity (N26 in
France) or modernize their credit value chain (BpiFrance for digital loans
charles.egly@younited-credit.fr
to SMBs) thanks to the “Credit-as-a-Service” offer. Partners can also
leverage the flexibility of digital lending to use credit as a seamless
Geoffroy Guigou payment method and remove price as a friction point. Iliad-Free (the #3
Co-founder & COO mobile operator in France with 20 M customers) have partnered with YBS
geoffroy.guigou@younited-credit.fr to finance their premium internet box through the Credit as a Payment
solution.
Going to Singapore for the Fintech Festival was a no-brainer! Although
we, as founders, go very rarely to that kind of events, for the Singapore
Fintech Festival we decided to send our 2 co-founders. Understanding
the latest innovations in payments – a sector where Asia stands much in
advance compared to the Americas - , meeting with executives of large
financial institutions, and sharing best practices with Fintechs from all over
the world: the schedule will be intense, but it is a must have for a pan-
European scale-up like Younited Credit!
Le Swave is the first French innovation platform dedicated to
fintechs. It selects, hosts, and accompanies on a program of 1 to 3
years the most promising French and foreign startups of the financial
sector in a logic of open innovation and commercial takeoff.
swave.parisandco.paris As the main French platform, it is Le Swave’s mission to represent the
Paris marketplace and promote its attractiveness. By attending the
Edouard Plus Singapore Fintech Festival, we aim at making us known to the foreign
Managing Director
fintech community interested in expanding to Paris. Hence, we contribute
to bring to the international stage the message of the "French Team of
edouard.plus@parisandco.com Fintech".
17Smart City
The ‘éco-quartier’ (eco-district) initiative launched as soon as in
2009 by French Government has favored the emergence of sustainable
urban developments.
While France counts a number of large companies that are pioneers
in the smart city industry, it is also home to numerous connected
city startups which have been successful at raising funds, such as
BlablaCar (car pooling platform), which became a unicorn in 2015 and
recently raised €101 million in 2018, or Activility (low power IoT), which
raised €75 million in 2017. Another successful example of French smart
city startup is that of Navya (autonomous electric vehicles), which got
listed on Euronext Paris in July 2018.
18Actility is a leader in low power and long range IoT solutions
(LPWAN, LoRaWan), with more than 50 public networks and thousands of
companies using ThigPark-Wireless platform all over the world in various
sectors such as industry, city development, logistics or agriculture. Actility
also offers geolocation solutions at particularly low costs. Already present
actility.com in Singapore, the company aims at developing LoRAWAN networks and
IoT solutions in partnership with operators, integrators, suppliers of
Alban Médici sensors and applications.
APAC Operations Director Actility is present across Southeast Asia with multiple LoRaWAN
networks from partner service providers, supported by our
alban.medici@actility.com
dedicated APAC operations team from Actility Singapore Pte.
Ltd. Actility is looking for IoT solution partners, infrastructure providers
(telcos, towercos), and end users (smart cities, industrial campuses,
airports) with whom to build end-to-end innovative solutions leveraging
Actility's LPWAN and tracking technologies. Actility can also help
interconnect LoRaWAN networks leveraging ThingPark Exchange, the
largest peering hub for LPWAN.
Easytopia, specialist in augmented reality solutions, offers services in
Smart City and Smart Builiding based on VPS (Visioning Positioning
System) technologies. These technologies associate geolocation and
image recognition. Therefore, Eastytopia is looking for partners
interested in indoor navigation solutions or in real-time data-driven
solutions in augmented reality, in the fields of mobility.
Thanks to the 5G infrastructure already ready in some Southeast Asian
countries, the network speed could offer a showcase of our services
based on VPS (Visioning Positiong System) technologies and associating
www.easytopia.fr
geolocation and virtual recognition.
Gauthier Ferret
CEO & Founder
gauthier@easytopia.fr
19FieldBox.ai helps industries dramatically improve their operational
efficiency thanks to artificial intelligence. The company develops
algorithms, collects and values data to improve the productivity
and safety of industrial sites.
The result of several years of R&D, Fieldbox.ai enables the transmission
www.fieldbox.ai of information at the very heart of industrial sites, where data is often
difficult to access due to connectivity and security constraints. The
platform manages the lifecycle of virtual agents trained with AI to
Clément Collignon
continuously and autonomously optimize operation and operate
Head of Growth
machines. Several solutions for smarter cities have already been
clement@fieldbox.ai deployed: for example, an optimisation of luggage sorting system in
airports, or a prediction system of failures of mechanical stairs in railway.
Fieldbox.ai was launched in 2011. It currently has over 50 employees and
offices in Bordeaux, Pau, Paris and Singapore, where it opened an
office in 2018. The company seeks to accelerate its development in the
APAC region and wants to assess the potential need for changes to its
product and service offering.
GeoTwin is a technology company born from a vision: to help
facilitate complex transport planning simulatoruse for all mobility
stakeholders and deliver high-fidelityresults for a reliable decision
making experience! We bring decades of experience in solving
geotwin.io
cities and mobility stakeholders ‘ most difficult city-scale transport
challenges, with the spirit and ingenuity of a start-up. Since 2018,
GeoTwin has been combining human-centred design with cutting-edge
Göknur Sirin-Jubin technology to develop an end to end, next generation activity-agent-
CEO & Co-Founder based transport planning enablers. GeoTwin propose a single platform
goknur.sirin@geotwin.io to design, to plan, and to optimise multiple transportation modes in a
city.
On the one hand, Singapore targets to become a Smart Nation to
support better living, stronger communities, and create more
opportunities. On the other hand, Singapore is an ideal location for
companies and researchers to develop, prototype and pilot their
technological solutions. We think that Singaporean markets fit perfectly
with our vision and provide many opportunities for collaborations and
testing.
Kinéis, provider of space IoT solutions, will be deploying in 2022 a
constellation of nanosatellites in order to offer global IoT
connectivity to all interested parties. Singapore being a gateway for
Southeast Asian markets, Kinéis is looking for companies specialised in
IoT and able to develop comprehensive devices and solutions.
www.kineis.com
Marc Leminh
CIO & Director Innovation and
Strategy
mleminh@kineis.com
2021
LA French Tech Singapore
La French Tech is the brand that represents the French startup
ecosystem and all those in it—from bioscience to online
marketplaces—wherever in the world they come from. It is also a
government-backed movement bolstering France as one of the best
countries in the world to start and scale global tech champions. As of
today, there are 13 French Tech Capital Cities and 38 French Tech
Communities in France, as well as 48 Communities abroad. French Tech
Singapore is one of them.
FRENCH TECH SINGAPORE is a one of the most vibrant tech
communities in Singapore, the voice of French startup entrepreneurs
and a key contributor of the tech ecosystem in Southeast Asia. La
French Tech encompasses all start-ups, i.e. all growth companies that share
a global ambition, at every stage in their development, from embryonic
firms to growing start-ups with several hundred employees and their sights
set on the international market. As is the case all over the world, digital
technology is a major catalyst for its development, and French Tech
represents both digital pure players and medtech, biotech, cleantech, etc.
start-ups.
Around a hundred startups created by French entrepreneurs have now
joined La French Tech Singapore.
22Fintech startups:
Clik is a Cambodia-based FinTech startup, which transforms the
payment experience by using the latest technologies, including mPOS,
machine learning, and biometrics.
www.clik.asia
Nicolas Olivry
nicolas.olivry@clik.asia
Incomlend is an online multi-currency invoice exchange for businesses
and private capital.
www.incomlend.com
Dimitri Kouchnirenko
dimitri@incomlend.com
Positive Energy provides a blockchain based asset financing, trading
and management platform that digitizes the transaction workflow
making green investments fast, liquid and economically viable for for all
parties involved.
positiveenergylimited.com
Nicolas Payen
nicolas@positiveenergylimited.com
Vantage Capital is an Asian independent investment bank for
Southeast Asia based technology startups.
vcapasia.com
Jean-Pierre Sedaghat
contactus@vcapasia.com
23Smart city startups:
AltaRoad develops an industrial IoT platform for infrastructure to
optimize transport and logistics. Our solution generates road data to
monitor traffic patterns, track the weight of vehicles, assess their impact
on the road and detect dangerous driving behavior.
www.altaroad.com
Cécile Villette
cecile.villette@altaroad.com
BeeBryte is a data-driven HVAC control & Chiller optimization software
for incresed energy efficiency thianks to AI prediction.
beebryte.com
Elodie Hecq
elodie.hecq@beebryte.com
Sigfox is the initiator of the 0G network and the world’s leading IoT
(Internet of Things) service provider.
www.sigfox.com
Guillaume Simenel
guillaume.simenel@sigfox.com
24Other fields:
Agorize is the leading online platform for open innovation
challenges, building bridges between businesses and a global community
of 5 million innovators
business.agorize.com
Johannes Jaeger
johannes@agorize.com
Co-creation Lab helps their clients envision what their operations
could look like in the future and use their own talents and expertise to
make it a reality.
cocreationlab.co
Julien Condamines
julien@cocreationlab.co
Dathappy is the first marketplace focusing on the growth of purpose
-driven organizations through Data Analytics projects empowering
www.dathappy.com
freelancers and learners around the globe to offer opportunities to all.
Yoann Fol
yoann.fol@dathappy.com
Dathena is the end-to-end data privacy and security solution powered
by artificial intelligence.
www.dathena.io
Eleonore Alesi
eleonore.alesi@dathena.io
Devialet is an acoustic engineering technology company, whose goal
is to bring high-fidelity sound to the world.
www.devialet.com
Clémence Le Floch
clemence.lefloch@devialet.com
25Dragonwhiz is an EdTech application for math learning for children.
www.dragonwhiz.com
Viviane Salin
viviane@dragonwhiz.com
eShard is a leading specialist in embedded security technology
focussed on cyber-threats and how to protect against them. We
www.eshard.com
empower professionals to manage their security challenges and risks. Our
experts and solutions enable our clients to examine and enhance the
protection of connected devices. As a result, our clients de-risk their
Jean-Luc Khaou
businesses and are better prepared for facing future security challenges.
jean-luc.khaou@eshard.com
Growth Marketing Studio builds marketing teams and strategies for
B2B Tech Startups to grow in Singapore and Southeast Asia
growthmarketingstudio.co
Thibaut Briere
thibaut@growthmarketingstudio.co
H3 Dynamics is a hybrid remote-sensing robotics & artificial
intelligence data services company that automates professional
www.h3dynamics.com inspection drone services - from data collection in the fields, to data
Taras Wankewycz transfer and processing, to AI-enabled results on client interfaces.
taras@h3dynamics.com
Hack40 brings together the entrepreneurial spirit of lean startup and
the scale and resources of a corporate.
hack40.com
Sofian Maguellati
sofian@hack40.com
Jumpster brings to market and accelerates sales growth in Asia for
innovative tech solution providers.
www.jumpster.sg
Sebastien De Peretti
sdp@jumpster.sg
26Meero provides end-to-end shoot management and tools which help
photographers reduce their financial stress, grow their business and
www.meero.com
develop their skills
Nicolas Orban
nicolas@meero.com
Rockside focuses on increasing rates of blockchain adoption for
enterprises and facilitating the implementation of decentralized
applications for businesses in a fast and secure manner. The Rockside
suite of tools helps organizations across industries incorporate
blockchain into their existing services, eliminating the cost of redesigning
rockside.io business-critical infrastructure from the ground up.
Margaux Papasian
margaux@blockchain-studio.com
Sleek helps incorporate and manage your company governance with
simple and efficient online tools.
sleek.sg
Adrien Barthel
adrien@sleek.sg
Toku is a cloud communication provider that enables smart
customer engagement via voice and messaging APIs.
tokuworld.com
Thomas Laboulle
thomas.laboulle@tokuworld.com
Webdrone's expertise in the areas of business intelligence and
cybercrime have enabled them to develop a tool for monitoring and
fighting against the various forms of cybercrime.
www.webdrone.fr
Emilie Philippe
emilie.philippe@web-drone.fr
27Co-Exhibitors
The Banque de France is the central bank of France. It is the
French pillar of the Eurosystem. Its three main missions are
monetary strategy, financial stability and the provision of
economic services to the community. The Governor of Banque de
France is François Villeroy de Galhau since November 1st, 2015.
Since June 2017, the Banque de France has launched “Le Lab”, a genuine Open
Innovation laboratory. Its goal is to bring new practices and technologies into the
Bank’s activities, and experiment where necessary within short and flexible cycles. The
Banque de France Lab works in close collaboration with innovative firms to identify,
explore and test new ideas and solutions, and gives them the opportunity to try out
their projects in real-world conditions and within a major institution.
www.banque-france.fr
Bpifrance, French State-owned Investment Bank, is composed of
3 divisions: equity (French sovereign funds – private equity and
fund of fund), financing (loans and guarantees) and insurance
(Export Credit Agency).
As part of its public-interest missions in favor of financing business investment and its
positioning as a supporting institution, Bpifrance offers a comprehensive range of
products and services dedicated to financing and accompanying SMEs, Midcaps and
Large corporations, mostly through loans, guarantees and equity. Bpifrance
accompanies firms in their innovation projects and international activities.
Bpifrance also offers a tangible support to companies to accelerate their growth with
a range of services: consulting missions, training days, networking and acceleration
programs.
With 2500 employees, Bpifrance has offices everywhere in France. It also has an
international presence. In ASEAN, Bpifrance is located in Singapore.
www.bpifrance.com
“The Conseillers du Commerce Exterieur de la France” (French
Foreign Trade Advisors or CCEs) voluntarily share their
experience helping with the international development of France.
They carry out concrete actions on a daily basis in partnership
with public and private players who have a role to support the internationalisation of
French companies. Appointed by the Prime Minister, CCEs are vested with the
missions of advising public authorities, supporting businesses, training young people
to the international stage and promoting France attractiveness”.
We count 4,500 businesswomen and men and experts in the international domain
across 150 countries, and in every French Region, promoting France’s development
for more than 120 years.
www.cnccef.org
28Established in 1979, the French Chamber of Commerce in
Singapore belongs to a worldwide network of 123 French
Chambers in 92 countries with over 35,000 companies.
One of the most active Chambers in Asia, the French Chamber is a private association
that promotes mutually beneficial trade relations between Singapore & France.
We represent a dynamic business platform of over 750 companies and individual
members representing a total network of 5,000 contacts in Singapore.
Official “Team France Export representative”, we are the one-stop shop for French
companies in their export and development in Singapore.
Our Mission:
Facilitate set-up and accelerate development of French companies in the local
market;
Develop relations between our members and the Singapore business community;
Encourage economic, commercial and investment relations between France and
Singapore.
www.fccsingapore.com
Société Générale is one of the largest European financial
services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking
model, the Group combines financial strength and proven
expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth,
aiming to be the trusted partner for its clients, committed to the
positive transformations of the world.
Active in the real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and
connected to the rest of the world, Société Générale has over 149,000 members of staff
in 67 countries and supports on a daily basis 31 million individual clients, businesses
and institutional investors around the world by offering a wide range of advisory
services and tailored financial solutions.
www.societegenerale.sg
CIC is an international financial services provider with a proud
heritage and a global approach to banking. Established in 1984,
CIC Singapore has been offering global capabilities and
comprehensive financial solutions to our clients in Asia Pacific.
We have opened a branch in Hong Kong in Year 2017 and plan to open in Australia
(Sydney) in Year 2020.
Our independent perspective, combined with expertise and insight will provide the
most relevant advice. Whatever your needs, you have access to a bank of expertise
that is always at your service. We offer Structured & Corporate Finance, Market Services
& Solutions and SME International Development.
www.cic.com.sg
Crédit Agricole Group hosts 800 start-ups across five
countries through our incubator, Le Village by CA.
Committed to working everyday in the interest of our
customers and society, we continuously innovate and
develop new technologies with more than 1,000
engineers in Singapore alone.
www.ca-cib.com.sg
29Let’s keep in touch
La French Tech Singapore Embassy of France in Singapore French Chamber Singapore
Julien Condamines Marie-Anne Pinet Sylvain Aparicio
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